See the first part for the disclaimer. Sorry so long in between posts. This'll be the last until 2003 most likely so everybody have a merry Christmas!
Got to say thanks to everyone that reviewed. Yes Pissing off a redhead is a bad thing…….
Willow arrived in the lobby fuming mad. She was early, but didn't care. She was supposed to have something to eat, but the anger coursing through her veins overrode any hunger she'd had. Jeff wasn't there yet and as she paced back an forth before the elevators, her anger rose from fuming to deadly mad. Looking around the lobby she realized that it would be a very bad idea to have a scene in the lobby. She took and deep breath and shoved her anger aside. There would be time for that later. The elevator dinged, and she paused her pacing. Jeff emerged from the elevator chatting happily with a blond haired man. She dimly recognized the blond haired man as one of the unfamiliar faces from the night before. Her anger surged upwards and she fought it back down.
"Jeff." She said sweetly, smiling at his blond companion. "I was wondering if we could start off with a run through central park?" She looked at her feet and smiled demurely. "If that's not to much for you boys on top of a work out?" Jeff and his companion rose to the occasion.
"Sure thing." The blond drawled. "We'll make sure to keep it slow so you don't get left behind…" He took her hand, and Willow squelched her anger once more. "I'm Edge. And your Willow." She shook his hand slowly.
"Wow… that must have taken you at least ½ of your brain cells to figure out." She shot. "What's that like 100 total?" Jeff laughed, startled by her attitude and Edge gave her a wry grin.
"Close to that." Jeff said. "pretty boy here has taken one to many chair shots to the head." He grinned at Edge and the pair laughed. "He dishes them out too." Willow smiled, and turned for the door.
"So you boys coming?" She asked over her shoulder as she got about 15 feet away from them. "Or am I running on my own?" She heard them coming after her and smiled savagely.
Willow stayed in the lead all the way to the park, glad for the many times she played bait for Buffy, or even the few times when she'd been running for real. It was only a few blocks to the park and she kept the pace high, dodging pedestrians and cars alike. As they reached the park she knew that Jeff was close behind but she had no idea how far back Edge was. She jogged onto the grass and took a deep drink from a public water fountain. She straitened up and turned to face Jeff. He had his arms crossed over his chest and was breathing hard.
"Still here I see." She said with a smirk. "I was worried that I'd lost you." She could see Edge rounding the last corner across from the park. "Your friend talks big, but he doesn't seem to go big." Edge Jogged up to them with a frown on his face. She said nothing but raised an eyebrow and ran straight into the woods that ran through the park. As she hit the foliage she risked a quick peek backwards and saw that they were following her. She ran on, nimbly dodging trees and branches until she came across a small clearing. A quick scan of the woods saw nothing around the clearing and she scaled a tree. She got her self situated just as Jeff hit the clearing. He looked around and stopped, confused. Willow smiled, she hadn't left a trail leading from the clearing. Edge emerged and she smiled.
He walked up to Jeff and the moment they were side by side, Willow struck. She flung magical ropes around their arms and legs, effectively immobilizing them. As Jeff swore and toppled over, she jumped down into the clearing, her eyes and hair black. She floated over to them smiling darkly the entire time. She levitated Jeff to his feet with a thought.
"Well," Jeff said with a sigh. "I think she knows about last night." Willow laughed and with a gesture of her hand, she summoned a magical field around and above them.
"Who and what are you?" She snarled. "What were you doing in my room last night?" Edge snarled and shot Jeff a look.
"You said she didn't remember." He said menacingly, then sighed and flexed his arms. The magical bonds broke off and fell to his feet. Willow blinked, and threw a huge blast of magical energy at him. Edge staggered backwards and Willow picked him up with a thought, and suspended him in mid air.
"Bad puppy." She hissed. "You stay there." She turned to Jeff and floated over to him. "You," she said pointing at him. "Tell me." Jeff shook his head and shoot Edge a look. "I can make you tell me Jeffery." She threatened. He remained mute. Willow sighed and blinked at him. "Don't make me mad…" Behind her Edge struggled in midair and swore furiously. She turned back to Edge and frowned. "If I really wanted to," She said conversationally. "I could rip off your skin. The pain would kill you instantly." Edge blanched and shut up. Willow turned back to Jeff. "You feel like talking now?" She heard something running through the woods and sighed. She cast an invisibility spell over Edge and Jeff, then gagged them. A blond man with a nasty black eye ran into the clearing, with a big muscular man chasing after him. She recognized the blond and slapped magical bond on the pair, dragging them into the field and dropping the invisibility spell instantly. The dark haired man freaked and started growling, but not at her, at Jeff.
"Jeffery Nero Hardy, what the hell have you gotten us into?" He snarled. Willow blinked and moved him to that he was next to his brother. She noted the resemblance and nodded.
"Brothers… How much fun.." She drawled. Then turned her gaze on the last blond. "Ahhh, I believe that we've met.." He swore and spat at her feet. She turned her gaze back to Jeff. "So you gonna talk, or do I start skinning?"
"Skinning?" Yelped Jeff's brother. "Talk Jeff damn you to hell."
"Yeah, Jeffy." She said softly, running a hand over his forehead, makings him blush, "Listen to your brother." She pinched his chin and forced him to look her straight in the eye. "I won't care what I have to do to you, if you don't start talking. If you are a danger to my friends, you'll go the same way as the rest of them."
"You mean your friend Spike? You've killed for that worthless demon?" Edge snarled. Willow arched and eyebrow at him and flipped him around a few times.
"No I ask the questions." She said patiently. "How many brain cells do you have?" She snarled. "You three," She pointed at Jeff, Edge and Christain in turn, "Broke into my room. You destroyed my wards. You apparently listened in on my phone call. And you have the nerve to ask me questions?" She floated higher off the ground. "Now someone tell me what the hell is going on?" A wild wind appeared from nowhere and whipped her hair around. Along with the wind came a body, tumbling to the ground. Willow frowned and caught the figure directly above the ground. It stood and brushed off its pants and turned to Willow.
"What are you doing?" Anya asked, irritably, looking around the clearing. "Vengeance is my deal." She walked over to peer at Edge and laughed. "What are you doing here?" She asked the upside down man. "No wait, I'll ask Will." She said and turned back to the diminutive witch. Ayna raised an eyebrow. "What did the unholy foursome do this time?"
"Three of them broke into my room, destroyed my wards, and he," She pointed at Jeff, "Picked me up and put me to bed." Willow stomped her foot. "Now they won't talk for me!" Ayna started to laugh. She looked at Edge and laughed, holding her sides.
"That's too rich." She snickered. "Not only do you piss off a witch, you piss off the most powerful witch in the entire world. You guys.. what is it, oh yeah, you reek of suckitude." The looks on the four faces apparently were hilarious, because Anya cracked up again. "And." She snorted. "You didn't even know it!"
"Anya!" Willow snapped. "Stop laughing and tell me who these guys are." Anya calmed down and walked to stand by Jeff and Matt.
"These are the Hardy Boys, Wrestlers, pranksters, and respectively," She pointed at Jeff, "the reincarnation of Samnaith, a lesser angel, who fell in the war between heaven and hell, he's spent the last two hundred hunting vampires with his brother," She pointed at Matt, "Matt, the reincarnation of Manithius, also a lesser angel, who followed his twin in death and reincarnation." She moved to stand next to Christian, who she poked in the eye. "I take it you gave him this?" She asked, "Well this is Christian, who was a fallen angel, although he more or less sauntered down to the other side. His only mistake was choosing the wrong side of the battle. He was banished to earth 5 hundred years ago, although I see his updated his body. He was a demon hunter for about a hundred years until he ran into those two." She waved back over to Jeff and Matt, then moved over to Edge. "And this is Edge, also known as Micheal. Sent down to watch out for these three, as things got closer and hotter to widespread war between humans and demons." Edge blinked and nodded at Anya.
"So your telling me that I have a bunch of angels, trapped in magical bonds, which they can't seem to get out of?" Willow asked, her hair beginning to fade back to red. Ayna nodded and Edge sighed, he blinked twice and waved one hand. He proceeded to fall flat on his head, and the bonds slipped off of the other three. "Or not." She said, and frowned. Edge climbed to his feet and stalked over to her.
"You play with things you don't understand little girl." He growled. Anya frowned and tapped him on the shoulder.
"Umm, Edge.." She said, he brushed her off and shoved Willow back a step.
"You need to get some god damned control and not meddle where you aren't wanted." He snarled. Jeff, Matt and Christian came to stand behind him and Anya tried again.
"Uh Guys.. you really don't want to piss her off. Because believe me, you ain't seen nothing yet." She warned them. Anya was pushed back, when she fell, she swore. Willows hair turned deep black and her skin got veiny. She waved one hand and the four ex-angels were thrown back, all of them landing on the far side of the magical field.
"I could end this you know." She said softly, shining with an extreme light. "I have read the books. I have the knowledge. I have the power. I can take what I need." She moved to hover over the guys. "I can destroy you. Strip every bit of divine power form you and make it my own." Anya stood and shook her head. "I can show you pain." Willow said. "I can show you new things. Things you've never felt before. I can rip you from the world as if you had never been in any form. I can unmake you." She held up one hand and a fragile bubble appeared, in it was a tiny version of earth. "I can make it end. I can make the pain stop. I can stop you." She paused and leaned her head back as if someone was whispering in her ear. "But I won't. I can do other things. She leaned over and glared at Edge straight in the eye. She smiled coldly, and pulled him upwards so that his ear was next to her mouth. "Your so careful, and so callous, but you don't run as deep as I do." She released him and he fell to earth with a thud. Willow walked back over to Anya and helped her up.
"If I were you," Anya said sympathetically to the guys. "I'd let her cool down. She's not very happy when you hurt her friends."
"We didn't hurt her friends!" Christan spat angrily, sitting up.
"My ass would disagree." Anya spat back. Willow stopped at the edge of the clearing and turned back to sweep them with an arctic gaze.
"Coming An?" She asked softly. "We can go shopping." She pinned each guy with her gaze. "As for you, do the words stay the hell away from me say anything to you?" Anya moved towards her but paused as a bright light filled the clearing. Anya turned to face Edge.
"You bastard." She hissed through clenched teeth. "Not this you jerk. Calling in divine intervention just so your stupid little secret doesn't get out. Who would she tell? Who would she tell?" The bright light filled the clearing and the rest of her words went unsaid, as time was re-spun and reshaped.
Ohh this parts over. What'd ya'll think?
Any suggestions? What will happen to Willow and Anya?